Last year during exam season, Sarah Vereschagin and her friends would book study rooms on campus, do coffee runs and use whiteboards to study.This year, the University of British Columbia student has spent the majority of her time studying alone with the comfort of her screens.Vereschagin, a third-year accounting and business technology management student, says being surrounded by the presence of her friends was the only way she knew how to recharge and get through stress.
But during the COVID-19 pandemic, she says she has lost motivation to study. “It felt like I wasn’t in school, but I had all the same academic consequences,” she said.